Subj : Re: Lock Free -- where to start
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : Joe Seigh
Date : Mon Oct 03 2005 10:40 pm

Oliver S. wrote:
>>Well, until 2010 anyway. That's when Intel claims 100 core proces-
>>sors will be commonly available. Individual cores probably won't
>>be much faster than they are now. If you want better performance
>>than you have now, you'll have to figure out how to do it with
>>more threads.
> 
> 
> I think we'll have transactional memory in harware by then. Sun
> will implement transactional memory with Rock, Niagara's follow-up.

And what would you do with tranactional memory?   Lock-free
algorithms?

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Joe Seigh

When you get lemons, you make lemonade.
When you get hardware, you make software.

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